A closed beta for Nintendo’s Mario Kart Tour mobile game will run from May 22 to June 4 in Japan and the United States, Nintendo has confirmed. Applications for the beta are open from now until May 7 on the game’s official website, which notes that the test will be exclusive to Android.
It was the start of 2018 when Nintendo announced Mario Kart Tour would launch sometime before March 2019, but that release date was changed a few months ago to “summer 2019.”
Bloomberg reports that news of the game’s upcoming release has seen shares in Nintendo’s mobile partner DeNA jump 5.7 percent. Other mobile games to come from the companies include the short-lived Miitomo, which despite finding massive success at launch was killed off just two years later.
Unlike Super Mario Run, which first arrived as an iOS exclusive before launching on Android a few months later, the beta test will be exclusive to users of Google’s operating system. The final version of Mario Kart Tour will be available on both Android and iOS.
